There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it.

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.

If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools.